linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg rcu lock fix in swap code (Was Re: [BUG] an RCU warning in memcg

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Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:02:21 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg rcu lock fix in swap code (Was Re: [BUG]
 an RCU warning in memcg

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:55:16 +0800
> Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Li Zefan wrote:
>>> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:00:41 +0800
>>>> Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, I saw this warning, it's because
>>>>> css_id() is not under rcu_read_lock().
>>>>>
>>>> Ok. Thank you for reporting.
>>>> This is ok ? 
>>> Yes, and I did some more simple tests on memcg, no more warning
>>> showed up.
>>>
>> oops, after trigging oom, I saw 2 more warnings:
>>
> 
> ok, I will update.  thank you.
> 

one more:

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
kernel/cgroup.c:4438 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
3 locks held by bash/2270:
 #0:  (cgroup_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c049ab37>] cgroup_lock_live_group+0x17/0x30
 #1:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c0517302>] mem_cgroup_can_attach+0xb2/0x130
 #2:  (&(&mm->page_table_lock)->rlock){+.+.-.}, at: [<c0513c23>] mem_cgroup_count_precharge_pte_range+0x93/0x130

stack backtrace:
Pid: 2270, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-tip+ #14
Call Trace:
 [<c083c636>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f
 [<c0480744>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x94/0xb0
 [<c049d6ed>] css_id+0x5d/0x60
 [<c051373f>] is_target_pte_for_mc+0x16f/0x1c0
 [<c083f46b>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x6b/0x80
 [<c0513c4d>] mem_cgroup_count_precharge_pte_range+0xbd/0x130
 [<c0513b90>] ? mem_cgroup_count_precharge_pte_range+0x0/0x130
 [<c05030bd>] walk_page_range+0x25d/0x3f0
 [<c0517344>] mem_cgroup_can_attach+0xf4/0x130
 [<c0513b90>] ? mem_cgroup_count_precharge_pte_range+0x0/0x130
 [<c0517250>] ? mem_cgroup_can_attach+0x0/0x130
 [<c049e000>] cgroup_attach_task+0x70/0x280
 [<c049e633>] cgroup_tasks_write+0x63/0x1c0
 [<c049e660>] ? cgroup_tasks_write+0x90/0x1c0
 [<c049d515>] cgroup_file_write+0x1f5/0x230
 [<c0842f90>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x500
 [<c047107b>] ? up_read+0x1b/0x30
 [<c0843195>] ? do_page_fault+0x205/0x500
 [<c051a8c4>] vfs_write+0xa4/0x1a0
 [<c049d320>] ? cgroup_file_write+0x0/0x230
 [<c051b3f6>] sys_write+0x46/0x70
 [<c0403090>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36
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